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In historical linguistics, Italo-Celtic is a hypothetical grouping of the Italic and Celtic branches of the Indo-European language family on the basis of features shared by these two branches and no others. There is controversy about the causes of these similarities. They are usually considered to be innovations, likely to have developed after ...
Phrygia describes an area on the western end of the high Anatolian plateau, an arid region quite unlike the forested lands to the north and west of it. Phrygia begins in the northwest where an area of dry steppe is diluted by the Sakarya and Porsuk river system and is home to the settlements of Dorylaeum near modern Eskişehir, and the Phrygian ...
I believe in Italo-Celtic, and a grouping above that containing Italo-Celtic, Helleno-Phrygian, and Germanic. Also, a grouping of Balto-Slavic, Indo-Iranic, Armenian, and maybe Albanian. I think Albanian might actually be its own thing though, as in some instances it actually retains the original ḱ k kʷ distinction according to Wikipedia's ...
Indo-Uralic. v. t. e. In historical linguistics, Italo-Celtic is a hypothetical grouping of the Italic and Celtic branches of the Indo-European language family on the basis of features shared by these two branches and no others. There is controversy about the causes of these similarities. They are usually considered to be innovations, likely to ...
1.2 Terminology . If authors use the same terms for different phenomena, misunderstandings easily arise, especially across different disciplines. Therefore, I wish to explore in some detail a term that is a recurring topic for discussion in historical linguistics yet which still causes much confusion, namely proto-language, a central concept in phylogenetic linguistics and in discussions of ...
Phrygian provides in several respects the missing link between Greek and Armenian. In particular, the paradigms of the middle voice appear to have been more extensive than what we find in the separate languages. The archaic character of the Phrygian language is corroborated by the Indo-Iranian and Italo-Celtic evidence.
Hellenic. The branch of the Indo-European family of languages that includes the various dialects of Greek. High German. The literary and official language used throughout Germany and Austria. Indo-European. Having to do with a group of related languages in India, western Asia, and Europe. Italo-Celtic. The form of the Italic which was spoken in ...